One of the things I really enjoy is talking with school children about my experience as a Veteran and providing them with an overview of what today's military does for all of us. Last week I was invited to Aspen Academy here in the Metro area to talk address this very issue. They were a very engaged group with lots of thoughts, comments and questions. A hallmark of one of my talks is to provide an overview of what the military does around the world and I challenge them to offer up a guess on how big the military really is and what makes it up. The guesses ranged from a couple of million to 10 to 20 million. Not only are the kids shocked by how small our force is, so are the adults in the room. In fact, even more so. Another hallmark of my talks is to end the discussion on what you should and should not say to a Vet. On many occasions I have been asked this and my reply to them is always "that is a very personal issue and I would encourage you to ask other questions which are not so personal in nature." They did understand and they were a great group to spend a morning with to start off the day.